I am NOT a doctor, dietician or expert. Do I know everything there is to know about diabetes? Heck no, but I do know what it’s like to live with it.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Leavin' on a Jet Plane

I wish my insurance company paid for ….

Don’t even get me started
on insurance companies.Grrrr. All of my pension check goes to pay our
insurance premiums. I dislike insurance companies so much that I pay for my own test strips and
we buy most of our prescriptions on a $4 formulary.We only buy 2 of Ray’s prescriptions using
our insurance because they’re freakin expensive.I personally feel that the health insurance
companies are the reason our country’s healthcare system is in such a mess, but
I digress.

If I could get my
insurance company to pay for anything at all, I’d love it if it would pay for
me to travel for D-Meet-ups.Wouldn’t
that be heaven?I know that I choose to
live in Podunk, AZ which is far from the madding crowd, but because I live in
such a remote area it’s difficult to find other PWD to connect with in
person.I talked about the abysmal
failure I had at the diabetes support group meeting here. My other issue is that I’ve “met” so many cool people online and I
would really like to meet them in person.I feel little pangs of jealousy when I read about them meeting at
conferences or as a planned meet-up.They all live so far away!So, if
I could get my insurance company to pay for me to fly there and meet great
people, pay for my hotel room (I guess I’d feed myself just to be fair) that
would do so much for my well-being as a person with diabetes.There is nothing greater than connecting with
someone who understands our “stuff” so why shouldn’t the insurance companies
back that up?Huh?What gives?That would be a sweet deal.I
know, I know….but I can dream, can’t I?

This post is my May entry in the DSMA
Blog Carnival.If you’d like to
participate too, you can get all of the information at
http://diabetessocmed.com/2012/may-dsma-blog-carnival-2/

2 comments:

I think that is a brilliant idea!!! In fact, if we could all spend some time together, I bet we'd eat better, take long walks as a group, and I know those of us feeling depression would be instantly uplifted. :)

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